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			<!-- Hidden form to contain the ID of the garden the user will edit, show for authenticated users and guests -->
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				<form id="load_form" action="calc/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
					<p><input id="garden_id" name="garden_id" type="text" size="3" /></p>
					<p><input id="submitme" type="submit" value="launch" /></p>
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			{% if user.username %}
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						Welcome <b>{{ user.username }}</b> | <a href="logout/">Log Out</a> | <a href="account/">Account Settings</a>
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				<h1>Calculator Home</h1>
				
				{% if gardens|length > 0 %}
				
					<p>Click on a link below to edit a landscape.</p>
					
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										RFL?
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									Landscape
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									Last Changed
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									Area (ft<sup>2</sup>)
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									Water Use <br />(gal/day)
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									Waste Produced <br />(lb/year)
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									Emissions <br />(lb CO<sub>2</sub>/year)
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						{% load humanize %}
						{% for garden in gardens %}
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								{% if user.is_staff %}
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										{{ garden.user.username }}
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										{{ garden.created }}
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										{{ garden.qualified }}
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								{% endif %}
								
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									<a href="#_" title="{{ garden.id }}" class="launch_garden">{{ garden.name }}</a>
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								<td>{{ garden.updated }}</td>
								
								<td class="align-right">{{ garden.area_total|intcomma }}</td>
								
								<td class="align-right">{{ garden.user_water|intcomma }}</td>
						
								<td class="align-right">{{ garden.user_waste|intcomma }}</td>
						
								<td class="align-right">{{ garden.user_emiss|intcomma }}</td>
						
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									<a href="#_" title="{{ garden.id }}" class="launch_garden">Edit</a>
									<a href="#_" title="{{ garden.id }}" class="delete_garden">Delete<span class="garden_name">{{ garden.name }}</span></a>
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						{% endfor %}
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					<!-- Duplicate link -->
					<p><a href="#" id="duplicate_link">Duplicate existing landscape...</a></p>
					
					<!-- We only need the delete and duplicate dialog boxes if num gardens > 0 -->
					
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					<div id="delete_dialog" title="Confirm delete">
						<p>Are you sure you want to delete the landscape "<span id="garden_name">&nbsp;</span>"?</p>
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							<!-- Hidden field containing ID of the garden to be deleted -->
							<input type="text" size="3" id="delete_id" />
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					<div id="duplicate_dialog" title="Duplicate landscape">
						
						<!-- List of landscapes the user can choose from to duplicate -->
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							<label for="duplicate">Select landscape to duplicate:</label><br />
							<select size="6" name="duplicate" id="duplicate">
								{% for garden in gardens %}
									<option value="{{ garden.id }}">{{ garden.name }}</option>
								{% endfor %}
							</select>
						</p>
						
						<!-- Name for the new garden -->
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							<label for="duplicate_name">Enter a name for the new (duplicated) landscape:</label><br />
							<input name="duplicate_name" id="duplicate_name" type="text" size="24" value="New Landscape" />
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				{% endif %}  <!-- if num_gardens > 0 -->
				
				<p><button class="new_garden" title="-999">Start a New Design</button></p>
				

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						<a href="login/">Login</a> | <a href="register/" >Register</a>
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				<h1>Calculator Home</h1>
			
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					If you’d like to save your results, you can create a free account by clicking the Register link above at any time. Once you register, you can create and save several different landscape designs for comparison.
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			<h3>What is River Friendly Landscaping?</h3>
			
			<p>River Friendly Landscaping is a holistic approach to landscaping that works with nature to reduce waste and prevent pollution and support the integrity of one of California’s key ecosystems, the Sacramento River Watershed. You can use the 7 principles of River Friendly Landscaping to create a healthy, beautiful and vibrant landscape.</p>
			
			<p>To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.riverfriendly.org/">riverfriendly.org</a>, or download the color brochure <i><a href="http://www.msa.saccounty.net/sactostormwater/RFL/Documents/RFL-athome.pdf">River Friendly Landscaping at Home</a></i> (PDF, 4MB).</p>
			
			<p>Using the River Friendly principles provides many benefits for you and our community. For example, these practices will reduce stormwater and irrigation runoff leaving your property and eliminate pesticides which are carried by runoff to our creeks and rivers. Here, they can harm fish and wildlife and make the rivers unsafe for drinking, fishing, boating and swimming. For more information about protecting our valuable water resources through stormwater pollution prevention, visit <a href="http://beriverfriendly.org/">beriverfriendly.org</a>.</p>
			
			<h3>Who Should Use this Calculator?</h3>

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				This calculator is for homeowners, landscape professionals, developers, and anyone else who wants to see how much water, time and money can be saved by creating a river-friendly landscape<a href="#"><img src="/site_media/images/info.gif" alt="More information" height="15" width="15" class="moreinfo help_river_friendly" /></a>, converting a conventional landscape to a more sustainable one, or simply maintaining an existing landscape in a more sustainable way. Also, this tool will estimate the amount of greenhouse gases <a href="#"><img src="/site_media/images/info.gif" alt="More information" height="15" width="15" class="moreinfo help_ghg" /></a> that can be reduced using river-friendly principles, primarily as a result of conserving water (and the energy used to deliver clean water) and recycling green waste on site, rather than hauling it to a landfill or a remote composting site. 
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			<h3>Why should I use this calculator?</h3> 

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				The calculator walks you through some simple steps to define the characteristics of your landscape and your maintenance practices. At the end, the calculator estimates the amount of water your landscape needs, as well as green waste and greenhouse gas emissions it produces, and the cost and labor required to maintain it, as compared to both a river-friendly landscape and a conventional one.
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			<h3>What will I learn from using this calculator?</h3>
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				The results section of this calculator will tell you if your landscape qualifies as &ldquo;River Friendly.&rdquo; It compares benefits of your landscape to a conventional landscape and a river-friendly one. Our hypothetical conventional landscape consists of a traditional lawn, with some medium-to-high water use flowers and shrubs, and an ordinary sprinkler irrigation system. Our river-friendly garden is made up of entirely of drought tolerant California natives or other low-water use trees, plants, and shrubs watered with an efficient drip irrigation system. Finally, the calculator provides suggestions for making your landscape more river friendly.
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			<p style="width:50%; margin: 2em 0 2em 1em; padding: 1em; border: 1px solid #3a8104;" ><b>Note:</b> Click on this icon <img src="/site_media/images/info.gif" alt="More Information" width="15" height="15" /> to get more information or help on different topics.</p>
		
			<p><strong>Updated February 10, 2012.</strong>If you have problems, comments, or suggestions, please email <a href="mailto:watsonj@saccounty.net?subject=River Friendly Landscaping Calculator Question">Customer Service</a>. You can also contact the developer, <a href="mailto:mheberger@pacinst.org?subject=River Friendly Landscaping Calculator Question">Matthew Heberger</a> at the <a href="http://www.pacinst.org/">Pacific Institute</a>.</p>
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			<p>Created by the <a href="http://www.pacinst.org/">Pacific Institute</a> for <a href="http://www.saccounty.net/">Sacramento County</a>, with assistance from the  <a href="http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/local/showcase/">US EPA</a>.</p>
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			<h3>Greenhouse Gases</h3>
			<p>Greenhouse gases (GHGs) trap heat close to the surface of the Earth, contributing to global warming and climate change. These gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), methane (CH<sub>4</sub>), and nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O), and others.</p>
			
			<p>Many of these gases occur naturally in our environment, but scientists have measured steady increases in most of these gases (all but water vapor in the list above) since the mid-1700s, when the industrial revolution began. Carbon dioxide, by far the most commonly emitted GHG, is released primarily by burning of fossil fuels (e.g., oil, coal and natural gas).</p>
			
			<p>Because carbon dioxide is the most prominent GHG in the atmosphere, it is commonly used as the metric for measuring GHG emissions. In this case, other greenhouse gases, such as methane, are converted to “equivalent CO<sub>2</sub>” or “CO<sub>2</sub>-eq”. This approach is useful for standardizing and comparing emissions from different sources and across sectors.</p>
			
			<p>In Sacramento County, like the state and country as a whole, the most common source of GHG emissions is energy use for electrical generation, transportation, and for heating, cooling and lighting in buildings. Energy is also used to treat and deliver potable water to our homes and to heat the water. For this reason, water conservation practices in your home and landscape will help to reduce GHGs and lower your carbon footprint.</p>
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			<h3>River Friendly vs. Conventional Landscapes</h3>
			<p>River-Friendly Landscaping practices foster soil health, conserve water and other valuable resources, reduce waste, and prevent pollution of our air and waterways. For the purposes of this online calculator, we define the two types as follows.</p>
			
			<h4>River Friendly</h4>
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				<li>The landscaped area is equal to the total area you entered for your landscape.</li>
				<li>Plantings (excluding turf) are either California Natives or other low-water use plants.</li>
				<li>Plantings are irrigated with high-efficiency drip irrigation.</li>
				<li>The landscaped area includes a small lawn of low-water use grass (144 square feet or less) that is watered with fixed sprinklers.</li>
				<li>Twenty-five percent of the plant trimmings are composted on site. The remainder is put into a green waste bin.</li>
				<li>The lawn is mowed with an electric push mower.</li>
				<li>Grass clippings are left to decompose on the lawn after it is mowed, a practice referred to as grasscycling. </li>
				<li>Watering is scheduled using a properly programmed smart irrigation controller that meets the plants&rsquo; water requirements, ensuring that the landscape is not overwatered.</li>
				<li>Mulch is applied 3 inches deep in areas planted in shrubs, trees, etc.</li>
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			<h4>Conventional Landscape</h4>
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				<li>The landscaped area is equal to the total area you entered for your landscape.</li>
				<li>The entire landscape is the equivalent conventional lawn, or high-water use flowers and shrubs.</li>
				<li>The landscaped area is fertilized.</li> 
				<li>The landscaped area is irrigated with sprinklers.</li>
				<li>Conservation practices such as grasscycling or composting are <em>not</em> used.</li>
				<li>Mulch is applied 2 inches deep in areas planted in shrubs, trees, etc.</li>
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